Sonny Rollins
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"Theodore Walter" ""Sonny"" "Rollins" is an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Rollins is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. A number of his compositions, including "St. Thomas (song)/St. Thomas", "Oleo (song)/Oleo", "Doxy (song)/Doxy", and "Airegin", have become jazz standards.

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I am always happy to be practicing. Period, ... I enjoy just playing my horn and going into the type of meditation that playing involves. It puts me mentally in a place that is always transcendent and above real life. I love playing just for myself. It's a great experience.

Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert.

Playing in public engenders new paths in your brain that you won't get playing alone. In other words, I can learn something playing in public in five seconds. If I was learning it in private, it might take me three months to get.

Highly, highly flattered by it all.

I look at all that from the inside, so you'd probably have to ask someone else.

I remember hearing that song around the house, and on the radio and everything, ... Wow, I haven't heard that record in so many years. It's one of my earliest memories of jazz. I believe in things like reincarnation, and it struck a chord someplace in my back lives or something.